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The International Phonology Meeting, to be held in Ferrara on 9-10 October
2014, will offer to scholars concerned with generative linguistics an
opportunity for discussion on such research areas as the place of phonology in
the grammar and the primes and nature of phonological representations. In the last years, the field of
phonology has experienced a widespread tendency to move away from formal
approaches and to seek the explanation for empirical data in independent
factors, not specific to language, like general cognition or articulatory and
perceptual ease, among others. Research on phonology as a component
of language faculty, however, still faces such fundamental issues as the
essence of computation and the locus of variation in phonology. To address such
concerns, phonologists are confronted with the need for explicit theoretical
frameworks. The aim of the Ferrara International
Phonology Meeting is to identify questions that will be empirically and
theoretically crucial for research in phonology in the mid and long term.